Olga Menchik
Chess Player
1908 – 1944
Who was Olga Menchik?
Olga Menchik Rubery was a Czech–British female chess master.
Born in Moscow into a Czech – British family, she was younger sister to Vera Menchik. They all moved to England in 1921. In January 1927, Vera won the London ladies championship, and Olga took second place.
She took fourth place in the fifth Women's World Chess Championship at Warsaw 1935, and tied for 17-20th in the sixth WWCC at Stockholm 1937.
She married a British husband, Clifford Granville Rubery. Olga, aged 37, her sister and their mother were killed in a bombing raid when a German V-1 rocket hit her home at 47 Gauden Road, Clapham, south London, in 1944.
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